A Spanish army officer was shot and injured in the northern Spanish town of San Sebastian Monday.
Police said they are investigating if armed rebel group ETA was responsible.
The officer, 28, was injured in the left shoulder at around 10 p.m. local time (2200 GMT). He was able to call emergency services and is now recovering in hospital.
A Basque police officer said there was not enough evidence showing the incident was an attack, but it is considered a possibility.
In a separate incident Monday, police arrested Asier Imaz, a senior member of Batasuna, the political wing of ETA, which stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language.
Anti-terror judge Baltazar Garzon had ordered Imaz's arrest in a case linked to 17 Batasuna leaders who were arrested for wrongful association earlier this month.
Batasuna has been banned as a party since 2003 for refusing to condemn violence and cut its links to ETA, which has killed 819 people during almost four decades of fighting for the independence of the Basque region.
Both Batasuna and ETA are considered terrorist organizations by the European Union and the United States.
In recent weeks, a car bomb injured a local politician's bodyguard in the nearby city of Bilbao. In neighboring France, a factory was raided and 2,000 liters of a chemical used to make explosives stolen. ETA, which has been blamed for both incidents, did not comment.
ETA's last deadly attack killed two Ecuadorians at Madrid's Barajas International Airport in December 2006.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has adopted a hard line against ETA since the group officially called off a 15-month ceasefire in June.
Source:Xinhua
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